Wrapping your head around “The Cloud” can be baffling enough in an online world of definintion debates… So leading up to our Under the Radar conference, we’ve gathered the best bloggers and journalists who’ve distilled this foggy space down to a well-defined, understandable sector. In no particular order, here’s my list of the Cream of the Crop who got me up to speed:

(let us know who your go to guy is)

Independent Bloggers:
Rough Type, Nicholas Carr – http://www.roughtype.com/
Thinking Out Cloud, Geva Perry – http://gevaperry.typepad.com/main/
Cloud Computing, Chirag Mehta – http://cloudcomputing.blogspot.com/
IT Management and Cloud, John M Willis – http://www.johnmwillis.com/
Cloud Ave. – http://www.cloudave.com
Virtualization.com, – http://virtualization.com/
All Things Distributed, Werner Vogels – http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/
SandHill.com, MR Rangaswami – http://www.sandhill.com/news/news_topic_more.php?topicId=77
Craig Balding – http://cloudsecurity.org/
Cloudpundit, Lydia Leong – http://cloudpundit.com

Information Week:
Plug into the CloudJohn Foley – http://www.informationweek.com/cloud-computing/
Start-up City – http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/startup_city/index.html?subSection=Startup_City
Virtualization – http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/virtualization/index.html?subSection=Virtualization

CNet:
Wisdom of the clouds, James Urquhart – http://news.cnet.com/wisdom-of-clouds/
Outside the Lines, Dan Farber – http://news.cnet.com/otl/
** CIO Sessions (Video Interviews) http://video.zdnet.com/CIOSessions/

ZDnet:
Between the Lines, Larry Dignan, Sam Diaz, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld – http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/

GigaOm:
Infrastructure – http://gigaom.com/category/infrastructure/

ComputerWorld:
Mark Everett Hall – http://blogs.computerworld.com/hall

Network World:
Jon Brodkin – http://www.networkworld.com/Home/jbrodkin.html
John Fontana – http://www.networkworld.com/Home/jfontana.html

CIO:
Jarina D’Auria – http://www.cio.com/author/156200/Jarina+D%27Auria
Michael Bullock, Contributor – http://advice.cio.com/user/michael_bullock

InfoWorld:
Cloud Computing, William Hurley – http://weblog.infoworld.com/whurley/

Sys Con:
Cloud Computing Journal, Jeremy Geelan – http://jeremygeelan.sys-con.com/
Cloud Computing Journal, Alan Williamson – http://alanwilliamson.sys-con.com/